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— Michael Mandelbaum"The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire."
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Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask how the democratic citizen could 'participate' substantively in imperial politics; hence it is not surprising that the subject of empire is taboo in electoral debates. No major politician or party has so much as publicly remarked on the existence of an American empire.
— Chalmers Johnson
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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